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...fencing off the open range. The six-shooters bang, the corpses hit the dust, the cowboys gallop hell for leather across the wide screen. In between the bloodlettings, Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood speak pidgin English to each other and sleep out on the prairie without a chaperon. The villains had several good chances to rub them out, but missed...
...British reporters waiting to meet them in Hong Kong, the Laborites were considerably less gracious. "Any statement on your tour?" one of the newsmen asked Attlee, but before the former Prime Minister could even remove his pipe, Morgan Phillips, Labor Secretary and party chaperon, snapped, "No." Only Trade Union Leader Harry Franklin and Dr. Edith Summerskill seemed disposed to chat, the one about houseflies ("Why, I've seen more flies right here than I saw in all my time in China"), the other about the "increased freedom in the field of love" now enjoyed by Chinese women. Dr. Summerskill...
...later Hong Kong press conference, free at last of his chaperon Phillips, Attlee was a little more talkative. He described with satisfaction his answer to Red Boss Mao, who had urged him to use his influence to withdraw all U.S. military aid from Asia and Germany (TIME, Sept. 6). He, in turn, had urged Mao to do what he could to curb the rampant militarism and intolerance that he had noticed in Soviet Russia, "the most heavily armed country in the world." Attlee cited this exchange as if it were proof of his standing up to the Reds, whereas...
Lawrence has always been co-educational, though in the Victorian era there were constant dicta forbidding pleasantries between the sexes. One elderly former co-ed remembers the rule banning any Lawrentian gentleman walking with a Lawrentian young lady without a chaperon. The one exception was during a rainstorm in which event the young man could offer to share his umbrella with the girl. "We used to call them our rainbeaus," the lady smiles...
Lawrence has always been co-educational, though in the Victorian era there were constant dicta forbidding pleasantries between the sexes. One elderly former co-ed remembers the rule banning any Lawrentian gentleman walking with a Lawrentian young lady without a chaperon. The one exception was during a rainstorm in which event the young man could offer to share his umbrella with the girl. "We used to call them our rainbeaus," the lady smiles...